| Municipality of Ronchi dei Legionari
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Pop.: 11,121
Area: 16,98 sq. km, 11 m a.s.l.
Neighbourhoods: Cave di Selz ,
Soleschiano, Vermegliano
Town Hall: Piazza Unita , 1 - 34077 Ronchi dei Legionari
Phone.: 0481.477111 Fax: 0481.779200.477231
www.comuneronchi.it
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Not far from the
Regional
Airport, recent
excavations have
brought to light the remains
of a Roman villa (1st-2nd
centuries AD) with several
mosaiced rooms. The Parish
Church of San Lorenzo is
of medieval origin, though
completely rebuilt in 1923
after the war. The interior of
the cross-shaped Church of
SS. Trinità (1762) has
several late-Baroque fittings,
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among which the sumptuous
marble altar. In the
neighbourhood of
Vermegliano, the old
church of S. Stefano was
restructured in 1558 and
contains lively 1576 frescoes
attributed to Sebastiano
Secante, as well as 15thcentury
fragments of
paintings. The name of
Ronchi is linked to two
important historical events:
the arrest of patriot
Guglielmo Oberdan (1882)
and D'Annunzio's
March on Fiume (1919).
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| PROVINCE OF GORIZIA
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Among the smallest in Italy, Gorizia
province is a unique casket of natural,
historical and cultural beauty, benefiting
from mild climate most
of the year, a place
where, to the
north, the hilly
landscape
of the
Collio area - frequently
terraced and world
renown for its winesopens
to Europe through
the valleys of the Isonzo
and Vipacco Rivers. The
central-eastern part of the
province is of karst...go
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